Le 18 brumaire
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Preparation for the IA The 18 Brumaire The coup was probably plotted in the home of Josephine de Beauharnais, in Paris.
The scheme was the following: Bonaparte as the chief commander of the army was to maintain order in Paris and in the assemblies. Then they would move the assemblies in Saint-Cloud on the pretext of Jacobin related danger. Since 1789, the meetings were still under the threat of the Parisian population. By moving the meetings, Napoleon ensured that the people of Paris could not intervene. Paris was closed and under police control.
The main events took place on the 19 Brumaire, Year VIII (November 10, 1799) in Saint-Cloud. The revisionists had contemplated a mass resignation of members of the Council of Five Hundred, but there was no unanimity in the assemblies. While debates raged, Bonaparte got impatient and decided to intervene.
Chronology:
17 Brumaire Year VIII
On the 17th at daybreak, the commanders of Paris, the regiments of the garrison and the adjutants of the forty-eight sections were invited to gather the next morning at seven o'clock in the morning in the street Chantereine, where was the mansion of Napoleon Bonaparte. The meeting was not seen as suspicious. The public believed that the General would leave for the army of Italy.
18 Brumaire Year VIII (November 9, 1799)
5:00 am the invitations to a meeting at 7:00 are sent to the Council of Elders. It neglects to ask those who seem adverse to the coup.
7:00
a crowd of officers in full uniform hurried outside the home of Napoleon Bonaparte; rue Chantereine (renamed in his honor, rue de la Victoire). Napoleon Bonaparte received them and made them a very bleak picture of France, because the "civilians", the "avocaillons" had led it to the brink of disaster.
8:00
Meeting of Council of Elders at the Tuileries. At the appointed hour arrived all those who have been invited.
An inspector of the room said that the "anarchists" were ready to overthrow the